Rec and Sports

Skinning A Deer

After the thrilling and fun session of hunting in the wild, bringing a hunt target like deer home will make you feel perfect. Yes, we were once used to the situation where men hunted to find food for their family. The fun still sticks to some people until now. But then it is time to skin the deer.

Skinning a deer can take hard process if you are not experienced yet. But it will soon be easy if you follow the steps. Physically, deer has separate skin and muscle tissues that make it easier to skin.

You should first hang the deer creating a greater leverage point for skinning the deer. This also ensures that the meat will stay clean. It is important to try to skin the deer within an hour or two of the deer’s death.

Your knife should be especially sharp. Supposing the deer is hung by the legs, find the large tendon connecting the lower leg segment to the rest of the deer’s leg. You should poke a whole with your knife in between the tendon and the bone there, then use your fingers to feel the lump that is created by the deer’s bone.

After that, find two parts of the double joint at the lower part of body to be torn. The leg should then be broken to ease the skinning process.

Once the legs are broken, you should make some other openings around the tendon and near the front legs. Keep an opening between the tendon and bone at the lower leg. Just remember to make some openings near the lower leg areas.

You will then sever and snap the front legs as well, making the skinning process easier. Use your finger tips and thumbs to get inside the skin near the lower leg incisions and begin to pull the skin off.

The skinning process may be hard in the beginning since the skin is quite tight. But once you can pull off some inches, the rest will be easy to finish. And even more after you see the meat, the reward of your hunt.

For a standard rule, skinning a deer can take from ten to fifteen minutes depends on how fast you can do that. It is just one step closer to enjoy and show off your hunt. It may be hard for hunt novices, but they will learn quickly after few times of hunting.